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Ok its not a renaming ceremony for Sony Xperia X1 but a Chinese remake of the original phone. As you would expect, SongLive X1 also comes with a full sliding QWERTY keyboard and additionally features a TV Tuner. 3-inch touchscreen and a 5 megpixel camera are other things for this phone to boast off.

Available only in China. More shots after the jump.

[Via Intomobile]

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Instablog, the blog & citizen journalist network has launched a daily video show called Global Report. The show is styled on the familiar television news format and features short video reports from their reporters in different parts of the world. Check out the screenshot & the video below- the final production is quite impressive. This show is available in different video formats and also for mobile devices, including the iPhone.

The video show is a powerful exposition of citizen journalism at its best. Media consumption habits for certain sections of the society are changing, courtesy the internet. I now spend lesser time reading the morning newspaper, which has been substituted by what I read online- either on online news channels or via the blogosphere. And while my own example is a slightly skewed sample to extrapolate to a larger audience, the change is incrementally perceptible for large swatches of metropolitan India.

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The most challenging thing in producing a video show of this kind is managing the logistics on a continued basis, apart from achieving consistency in production quality. You can do it for a short duration fairly easily but getting this running as a regular show is a demanding exercise. This is what Instablog says “….putting a daily show together of such magnitude has been an adventure in itself. We have writers sending us information putting their own lives at risk to get the truth out. We have literally put together a global news organization using tools which have to be available in even some of the world’s poorest countries….“. I can imagine that.

Instablog (for those who might be unaware) is an excellent social media news website. They have over 25,000 registered members and gets more than 3 million pageviews per month. And you can’t but feel jealous - they are based out of Shimla, the popular hill station in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. WOW! Having an office overlooking the Himalayas - I could kill for that!

Firefox completed its world record for most number of downloads in a single day with 8002530 downloads . And this blog played a small part in it - equivalent to 1 part in 8002530 (0.000000124 %). Here’s the certificate….

Firefox 3 is an absolute beauty. It has been tested to be much faster than Firefox 2, IE 7, the to-be-launched IE8, Opera 9.5. So overwhelming was the response to their download day blitzkrieg that their servers melted down as this story reports.

The browser wars are a real nightmare for web designers & developers. The lack of standardisation effectively means that cross browser compatability takes away a disproportionate share of development time. For an average AJAX/Javascript enabled interface, almost 25% of development time is consumed in making it work across major browsers. Without being prejudiced, I must add that IE is by far the biggest culprit. IE7 is not a problem, but IE6 (with almost 60% world internet penetration) is a HUGE one.

Case in point - on SlideShare we have had this mysterious problem with a particular interface where some of the elements (text, images) appear & disappear randomly in IE 6. We have tried to solve this embarrassing bug for 6 months now but to no avail…. our developers had almost given up. A few days back we finally tracked down its cause to something called the IE6 Peekaboo effect. Hopefully we shall be able to nuke this with the next release…..

The results of the TiE Canaan Entrepreneurship Challenge 2008 are out and the top awards have gone to Druvaa, Equitas & iKen (there is no specific gradation in the prizes). The finals for the business plan competition were held today at New Delhi and the awards were announced at an entrepreneurship / startup gathering in the evening. Congrats to the winners. Iken has also been awarded the Microsoft award and a direct entry into the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program.

Some snaps from the event ….

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Quick note about the three winners :

- Druvaa is a 10 member startup based out of Pune and is in the data protection and backup storage space.
- iKen Solutions is a software company specializing in intelligent business systems backed by hybrid AI (Artificial Intelligence) techniques. It is an IIT Bombay research spin-off.
- Equitas is a Chennai based microfinance orgainisation for extending micro credit to people who are otherwise unable to access finance from the mainstream banking channels.

The jury for the competition comprised well know entrepreneurs & startup mentors - Raman Roy of Quattro, Pramod Bhasin of Genpact, Saurabh Srivastava of TiE, Mahesh Murthy of Pinstrorm/Seedfund, Sanjeev Bikhchandani of Naukri.com & Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners.

The award ceremony was preceeded by an open house discussion on entrepreneurship challenges in India. This was led by Shireen Bhan, CNBC India’s leading business news reporter.

Just wanted to share this really cool video titled “Where the hell is Matt?”. It chronicles the travels of Matt, a 31 year old American who got an all expense paid 6 month world trip through 39 countries on 7 continents. What did he have to do- well, JUST DANCE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA!!!!! And dance he does with a characteristic jig that is sure to make you want to try it out yourself. If you want to read his bio, head over here. Watch every second of this 4.28 min long video (its high fidelity and so takes a fair bit of time to download, but the wait is worth the time). And yes, his world travel starts with Mumbai…. and in the midst touches Gurgaon as well…

The background score incidentally is in Bengali and is an adapation from the poem “Stream of Life” from Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore and it has been sung by Palbasha Siddiqui, a 17 year old second generation Bengali of Bangladeshi origin from Minneapolis in the US (thanks Unmesh for the tip)

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

BTW, JLT is just like that- just a reason to share cool stuff from across the web.